This site's own maintenance log, in public. What broke, what got checked, and what's still an open question when the post goes up — not only the finished verdicts. Same rule as every report card: publish the record, not the adjective, and say plainly what isn't known yet.
Fourteen Nebraska senators voted on medical cannabis in 2021 and again in 2025. Here is how each voted, when each term ends, and who is on the November 2026 ballot in each seat. Ten of the fourteen seats are on the ballot. None of the ten names is on it.
Questions sent to the Omaha metro board and Secretary of State candidates, who answered, who wrote back, and a correction to my own page. Sunday, October 4, 2026.
On September 14 a parent counted the days, one Commissioner answered with his own timeline, and another said nobody gives them orders. Their words, what got pushed back that day, and my read, labeled as mine.
A dated timeline of the Ricketts family’s Nebraska political giving, with a link on every row and a label on what I have checked and what I have not.
I got to the Good Life in September 2001. Today I learned where TD Ameritrade came from, and how one family’s record runs from a 1975 brokerage in Omaha to two names on the same 2026 ballot.
I was muting the TV for political ads and I snapped. So I looked up the name. Then I found out who she was married to. That’s what doing homework a second time looks like.
A Regent candidate texted my phone asking for my vote, and I didn’t know what the job was. A day later: 81 candidates, 39 races, four ballot questions, and a page to hold them. One person, 2001 to 2026.
Every OPPD Board candidate got the same four questions on September 24. One answered in twenty-five minutes. I nearly repeated yesterday's mistake, made a new one, and dated a free-forever promise before anything is for sale.
On September 20 this site published a Nebraska official's voting record. Nobody told him, and nobody told the person running against him. It took three days and a script to notice.
What I prepared to say to the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission on September 14, 2026: two requests, and the record behind them.
I asked Nebraska's Accountability and Disclosure Commission a narrow, technical question about their campaign-finance export. Their Deputy Director answered every part of it, in writing, and it changes what this site can honestly claim about filing deadlines.
Today's build was two pages about the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission. While sourcing them I went back and read what its interim Chair said about legalization before she was appointed to regulate it — and how a 4-4 tie became a confirmation.
Entry two: I found an email I sent to a Senate campaign in July, months before this site had an outreach effort at all — and realized whose voice was already in it.
A new ongoing series: what it actually takes to get anything done here, told by someone who's been an outsider in this state since the day he arrived. Entry one: 2001, my first day in Omaha, and the first time an American told a fellow citizen to go back to his own country.
What today's outreach actually turned up: a real form I'd missed on one candidate's site, a better address for another, and two certified U.S. Senate campaigns that, checked against FEC.gov and Ballotpedia directly, genuinely have no public contact channel at all.
A Sunday recap of one week's build: five corrections published as loudly as the findings that needed them, a screener built from the mistakes it was written to stop, three new Civics 101 pages, and every Nebraska senator's state money now on the record.
One day out from the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission meeting: what's changed since the questions post, what hasn't, and a thread I didn't expect to find while checking a completely different part of this site — two certified 2026 candidates who ran on this exact issue.
Preparing to speak to the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, I found out my own condition and my wife's were never excluded by any list — because there is no list. What that changed about what I plan to say, and a poem about the one thing I'm actually asking for: the truth, published.
One in five overdose deaths had cannabis detected, says a CDC report published September 3, 2026. The same paragraph says cannabis caused 0.8% of them and was the only drug in nine. Nebraska is in the data. Two CDC pages are behind their own report.
A pardon forgives the offense. A commutation shortens the sentence. Neither erases the conviction, a president can only touch federal crimes, and in Nebraska the governor cannot do it alone. Sourced to the Constitution, the Justice Department, and the Nebraska Board of Pardons.
Sen. Kathleen Kauth answered our request for comment on LB933. One sentence in her statement sent me back to the Legislature’s own record, and the record showed my page had the order of events wrong. Here is the correction, and what it does not say.
On Monday I sit in on the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission. Here are my four questions, published before I go so you can hold me to them, plus what the Commission already answered by email and the one question it declined.
My wife sent the site to a friend and I panicked because it was not ready. So I checked the record instead: 1,030 requests, a redirect I broke for six minutes, a security guard that only stopped me, an inbox that works, and a word I took back from 18 pages.
In 2002 I went to work at the Rorick, 604 South 22nd Street. It closed in 2025. On August 24, 2026 the city put it first on a list of four housing projects. Here is the public record on the money, the building, and the summary I was handed that got three things wrong.
I told you last week we could not build the ZIP lookup because the data did not exist. It was on my own hard drive the whole time, in a folder I had told the auditor to ignore. Here is what else was in there - including a bug I shipped, and the dead formula hiding behind it.
We built an embeddable voting-deadline countdown for all 51 states, then tested it by attacking it. Two bugs found before release, one of them ours from two days ago. No backend, no tracking, free to paste on any site.
I went looking for a tariff claim on two Governor campaign sites and found neither. What I found instead was a candidate whose ballot status had changed twice in three weeks — and a reminder that Nebraska is one race out of thousands.
I didn't make it to the State Fair debate. My wife sent people to the site instead of me sending them to the fair. Eleven things the candidates said, checked one at a time against the actual record.
A broken link sent me to FEC.gov instead. What I found there: outside groups have spent more touching one Nebraska Senate candidate than he raised himself, three and a half times over. Homework, published as I do it.
A three-week-old bug report didn't check out. Following it anyway turned up a worse one hiding underneath — a retired label we'd already killed once, live on 51 pages. Homework, published as I do it.
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